#3535 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Cherry Gall Wasp

🇳🇱 Galappelwesp ·Cynips quercusfolii

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © NATT-at-NKM · CC BY 4.0
2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Yannick Juvé · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Маргарита Дворянкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © shelbourne · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
8. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cynips quercusfolii is a gall wasp species in the genus Cynips . The species is important for the production of commercial nutgall formed on Quercus lusitanica (the gall oak).

base stats

NL sightings 165iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 14,411iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 165 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #33 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
14,411 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).